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Blizzard Warning 2, NWS Boise, ID

January 11, 20246 counties in Idaho

NWS Boise, ID issued this blizzard warning at Jan 11, 2024, 5:20 AM MST for 6 counties in Idaho. It took effect at Jan 11, 2024, 5:00 PM MST. It was in force for 27 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jan 11, 2024, 5:20 AM MST (12:20 UTC)
In effect from
Jan 11, 2024, 5:00 PM MST
Expired
Jan 12, 2024, 8:00 PM MST
In force
27 hr
Issued by
NWS Boise, ID

Counties Camas County, ID, Elmore County, ID, Gooding County, ID, Jerome County, ID, Owyhee County, ID, Twin Falls County, ID

The radar

The Boise radar (KCBX), 118 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:20 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Elko, NV (KLKN), launched 12:00Z, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 236 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Elko, NV at 12:00Z on 2024-01-11Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Elko, NV at 12:00Z on 2024-01-11The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 74 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
960 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
46 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
74 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
116 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.